OSIsoft PI System
OSIsoft PI System is a real-time data management platform used by industrial organizations to capture, analyze, and visualize operational data from sensors, devices, and applications.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles OSIsoft PI System the way a machine reads it — 32 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — OSIsoft PI System scores 39.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 20/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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How we profile OSIsoft PI System
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for OSIsoft PI System. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 10
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
AVEVA CONNECT Data Services API
AVEVA CONNECT (formerly AVEVA Data Hub / OSIsoft Cloud Services) provides cloud-native REST APIs for industrial time-series data management, data views, event data, and secure c...
OSIsoft PI AF SDK
OSIsoft PI Asset Framework SDK (AF SDK) is a .NET client library for programmatic access to the PI System asset hierarchy, time-series data, and event frames from on-premises PI...
osisoft-pi AssetServers API
Asset Framework server navigation
osisoft-pi Attributes API
AF attribute management
osisoft-pi BatchRequests API
Batch and parallel request execution
osisoft-pi DataServers API
PI Data Archive server management
osisoft-pi Elements API
AF element management
osisoft-pi EventFrames API
Event frame query and management
osisoft-pi PIPoints API
PI point (tag) management and data
osisoft-pi Streams API
Time-series data streams
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Open Collections 10
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONOSIsoft PI Web AssetServers API
OPEN COLLECTIONOSIsoft PI Web AssetServers Attributes API
OPEN COLLECTIONOSIsoft PI Web AssetServers BatchRequests API
OPEN COLLECTIONOSIsoft PI Web AssetServers DataServers API
OPEN COLLECTIONOSIsoft PI Web AssetServers Elements API
OPEN COLLECTIONOSIsoft PI Web AssetServers EventFrames API
OPEN COLLECTIONOSIsoft PI Web AssetServers PIPoints API
OPEN COLLECTIONOSIsoft PI Web AssetServers Streams API
OPEN COLLECTIONOSIsoft PI Web API
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Osisoft Pi Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Osisoft Pi Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Osisoft Pi Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
OSIsoft PI System API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 2
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
OSIsoft PI Point
JSON SCHEMAOSIsoft PI Timed Value
JSON SCHEMASecurity Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for OSIsoft PI System — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 5
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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